Stylon Pilson

It sounds like you were very professional, despite all of the nonsense that you were having to put up with. I have a lot of respect for you for that. S.P.

[quote name='Zach' post='166175' date='Mar 30 2008, 12:10 AM']My favourite for just trying out things for the sake of it has to be the Bass Gallery. Some nice guys, happilly left me playing on an alembic for 15 minutes, then came back to ask if there was anything else i wanted to play! I feel slightly guilty in that I've never bought more than a pair of strings in there though...[/quote] Don't feel guilty. They know that when you have the cash, you'll be spending a bucketload there, which is why they are happy to let you play around with the instruments that you can't afford right now. It's just good business sense. (Oh, and apologies for resurrecting a 4-month old thread) S.P.

It varies for me, but as a general rule I am willing to sacrifice a little bit of accuracy for the sake of enjoying myself. S.P.

As a note: Plasplug make a product called "metal cavity anchors" - these are exactly the same as the Rawlplug Interset, and cost about the same. I've remounted wall hanger #1 (the one that was into a stud, but poorly) using two of the above plugs. I reckon you could hang two or three basses off of that. S.P.

[quote name='geilerbass' post='261462' date='Aug 13 2008, 11:47 AM']A bit crap that they didn't dust the bass off - perhaps they're going for a truly authentic vintage look. Though they're probably just being lazy.[/quote] I've always assumed that the layer of dust in V&R is for ambience. S.P.

[quote name='basscki' post='261259' date='Aug 12 2008, 11:23 PM']Evening All After an evening dash in the recent thunderstorm monsoon season with 2 EBS cabinets swathed in bin liners does anyone know where you can get reasonably priced shower proof covers for cabinets/amps etc? Cheers Mick[/quote] I made my own out of an Ikea blue bag. S.P.

[quote name='Geek99' post='260816' date='Aug 12 2008, 01:43 PM']yes, you are correct about "roots" - the "fifth" is the note that is two strings across and two frets down, or alternatively seven frets down the same string from your starting point[/quote] 2 strings across and 2 frets down is the octave ("twelfth"). [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)#Interval_number_and_quality"]See here[/url]. (Note: a "semitone" is, to all intents and purposes, a fret) S.P.

[quote name='neptunehealer' post='260638' date='Aug 12 2008, 09:55 AM']i am buying blind without trying[/quote] Don't do that. S.P.

Remember that it's only worth £550 if you can find someone willing to pay £550 for it. People aren't spending much at the moment. S.P.

[quote name='lateralus462' post='260161' date='Aug 11 2008, 05:26 PM']That's an idea I like.[/quote] I can see the appeal, but I'm pretty certain that the only quicker way of breaking up the band would be to set fire to them. S.P.

[quote name='lateralus462' post='260148' date='Aug 11 2008, 05:11 PM']Problem is if I did try to get them all to sit down together for a chat you can guarantee one of the miserable b**stards would cancel!![/quote] Set a quorum. Don't cancel a rehearsal / gig / whatever unless 2 or more people are unable to make it. I know that a rehearsal with n-1 people isn't as effective as a rehearsal when everyone is there, but at least it keeps the wheels turning. I'm in a 5-piece and we generally go ahead with a session even if only 3 people can make it (sometimes even only two). S.P.

[quote name='Sarah5string' post='259455' date='Aug 10 2008, 06:31 PM']Well back from band practice. We are carrying on as a 4 piece and going ahead with the gig[/quote] I don't think you'll regret it. I've been in a band once where one of the guitarists left before our first gig. After a while, you'll forget that you were ever a 5-piece. And there's a bigger slice of cake for each person this way, of course. S.P.

[quote name='aceuggy' post='258686' date='Aug 9 2008, 09:15 AM']Played it last night and my first reaction was how nice it sounded. It made made my cheap as chips Affinity bass sound good![/quote] Correction: your Fender Rumble 15 was making your perfectly adequate Squier bass sound rubbish. I remember when I got my first real bass amp (Peavey Nitrobass into a 1x15), after playing through a Stagg 20W amp (8" speaker) for years. Suddenly, bass playing was so much more enjoyable. S.P.

If it was any good, surely Fender would have made loads of them? S.P.

I've obtained a replacement battery snap from Aria UK and installed it, but the ground loop is still there. So I guess it's either (a) an unrelated fault which I just hadn't noticed before, or (B) something that happened while I was poking around in the instrument's internals. I'm now trying to track down the source of the ground loop. One thing I have noticed, which may be relevant, is that the noise disappears when I bridge from the plug on the guitar lead to the lowest string, but it doesn't disappear when I bridge to the highest string. The Aria Sinsonido has a stereo microphone in a tube in the bridge, so perhaps the problem is with the microphone under the E and A strings (or its connections). Any thoughts, or do you think I should make another call to Aria UK? S.P.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='258422' date='Aug 8 2008, 07:25 PM']The French have expanding metal ones with a central threaded insert that take bolts rather than screws. The fixing expands behind the wall (more than a normal rawlplug) to spread the load. They look like they'd hold a bass. If you check the packaging of the fixings, they may give details of any weight limits that they may hold...[/quote] That's exactly what I've used - the Rawlplug Interset. These things never tell you the weight limit that they will support. They only ever say "light", "medium" or "heavy" duty, without any indication what that represents. I guess it's so that people spend extra on "heavy duty" stuff when they don't need it, just to be on the safe side. S.P.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='257911' date='Aug 8 2008, 11:08 AM']Can a player ever be too good?[/quote] I think that I might be. [b]Edit:[/b] Scratch that, I [i]know[/i] I am. S.P.

Monday evenings, 2-3 hours. S.P.

Wall hangers are up. Here's the situation. Wall hanger #1 is mounted into a stud, but not perfectly. It's holding my Yamaha BBG4SII, but I'm going to redo it at some point. Wall hanger #2 is mounted into a plasterboard wall. I couldn't find a stud, no matter how hard I tried, so I just went ahead and used Rawlplug Interset fixings. There's a knack to using these things, and I completely bodged one of them up [i](you have to give them a good solid thwack or three with a hammer to make sure that the teeth bite nicely into the surface before you start tightening the screw)[/i], so this hanger is only using two screws instead of three. Still, it's very secure, and very happily holding my Epiphone G400 SG, which weighs about 6lb. Wall hanger #3 is also mounted into a plasterboard wall. By now I had figured out the Rawlplug Intersets and all three went in beautifully. The cavity in my wall wasn't deep enough to accommodate them, so I had to drill about an extra centimetre into the brick on the other side. This one is currently supporting a common electro-acoustic guitar. I'm really impressed by these Intersets. S.P.

[quote name='budget bassist' post='256842' date='Aug 7 2008, 12:53 AM']Yeah i've hung from plasterboard before, didn't bother using plugs either, just nice long screws straight into a stud.[/quote] Thanks for responding. I was looking for first or second hand evidence of basses falling from plasterboard walls because they weren't screwed into a stud. S.P.

[quote name='Pkomor' post='256822' date='Aug 6 2008, 11:58 PM']i hang my stingray, and a cort gb74 on wall hangers, secured by 3 screws into a plasterboard wall, using quality plugs. It is fine, they easily support the weight, and my basses aren't light! Go for it, it worked well for me![/quote] What kind of plug did you use? S.P.

Fair enough. Off to the shops for a stud finder tomorrow then. S.P.

I've purchased a few wall hangers so that I can put my instruments up out of the reach of my son. One of the walls which I'm planning on using is 4cm thick and made of plasterboard (so I assume that there's a 1.5cm cavity in the middle). I've tried using a magnet-on-a-string to find a stud to drill into, but it's not being drawn towards anything. Is this a common construction for a 1960s house? If I can't find a stud, I reckon that an 8lb bass hanging from three screws will still hold. Should I use heavy duty wall plugs, just to be on the safe side? S.P.

[quote name='aceuggy' post='256076' date='Aug 6 2008, 11:02 AM']That's a great review. I intend to buy one very soon, two things concern me, first how loud is the fan? I will only playing this initially anyway at home with the volume down, unless the wife goes out! Would I hear the fan above low volume playing, that could be a bit distracting.[/quote] I've got the EB12-180 and I assume that the fan is of a similar volume. Yes, it's quite loud, but I don't find it to be distracting when playing at low volume. The best advice that I can give you is to try one out and decide for yourself. S.P.

[quote name='lowhand_mike' post='181976' date='Apr 21 2008, 04:46 PM']But i am still at a loss as to exactly what the sub harmonic generator does. As to me wether it is on or off the combo sounds the same.[/quote] That's strange, I have an EB12-180 and I can definitely hear the difference when the sub-harmonic is switched on. If you can't hear any difference when you switch it on and turn it up to maximum, then it must be broken. It basically adds an additional note(s) an octave below what you are playing. When the dial is turned up to maximum, that sub-harmonic note should be more-or-less as loud as the source. S.P.